Pants



L. DECKER.

(No Model.)

PANTS.A

,Patented Deo. 28

By h6?" UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LIZZIE DECKER, OE sANDUsKY COUNTY, OHIO.

PANTS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 355,256, dated December28, 1886.

Application tiled September 21, 1886. Serial No. 214,127. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LIzzIE DECKER, a citizen of the UnitedStates,residing in the county of Sandusky and State of Ohio, have inventedcertain new and useful Improvements in Pants; and l do hereby declarethat the following is a full, clear, and exact description of theinvention, which will enable others skilled in the art to which itappertainsto make and use the same.

My invention relates to pants, and more particularly to that class knownas kneepanls, and worn by children, the object of the invention being toso construct the saine that they will not gap open at the slits in thehips, as is usual in this kind of garment, and to cover the slit in suchmanner that articles may be placed in the pockets without the liabilityof their dropping down the legs of thc pants.

With these ends in view, the invention conssts in theimproved`construction and detailed arrangement of parts hereinafter fullydescribed, and pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a pair of pantsembodying my iniprovements. Fig. 2 is a similar view with the back flapopened. Fig. 3 is a detail side View, and Fig. 4 is a detail view, of myimprovement.`

Corresponding parts in the several figures are denoted by the sameletters of reference.

Referring'to the drawings, A represents the pants having the front andback flaps, B C. The front portion ofthe pants is secured at its upperedge, while the back flap is adapted to be let down, and said back flapis provided at each corner with an eyelet or button-hole, b, to receivea button, c, secured at the upper edge of the pants. v

D represents the pockets, to the inner edges of which are secured flapsE, which are cut away toward their inner ends, for an obvious wherebythey may be connected. As the flaps are secured to the inner -edges ofthe pockets2 it will be observed that when the back flap is buttoned toplace the said flaps will effectively close the slits between the frontand rear ilaps of the pants, thereby preventing the under-clothing ofthe child from being exposed, and so that 'articles may be placed in thepockets without any liability of their dropping downinside the pants.The llaps, when buttoned, ht sufficiently tight to prevent theirslipping or falling down, and serve to aid in holding the pants inposition.

It will be seen that as the naps are cutaway or recessedv at their ends,it is not necessary to unbutton or disturb them in the least inattending to the calls of nature, it only being necessary to unbuttonthe back hap.

Theimprovement before described is simple, effective for the purposesintended, and may be applied to pants at a trilling cost. v

Having thus described claim- 1. The combination, with a pair gf pantshaving the front and back flaps, of the concealing-deps, each secured tothe interior of the pants at one end and having means for connectingtheir other ends, said liaps closing the side slits in the pants,substantially as set forth.

2. The combination, with a pair of pants, ofthe concealing-flaps securedto the interior of the front flap and extending to the rear Hap, andhaving means Vfor connecting them at such point, the eyelets b, andbuttons c, attached to the concealing-ilaps, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof Iaffix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

LIZZIE DECKER.

Witnesses:

SUSIE BILLAN,

purpose. One'of these flaps is provided with F. R. FRONIZEE.

a button-hole and the other with a button,

my invention, I

